Lydia Wagenknecht is an interdisciplinary, community-engaged researcher and educator based in Boulder, Colorado, USA and Punta Arenas, Chile. She is currently a lecturer at the University of Colorado Boulder and Metropolitan State University of Denver. 

A Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) and Fulbright U.S. Student Program awardee, her research examines the intersections of climate change and music making in Chilean Antarctica. In her former role at the American Music Research Center, she conducted five years of community-engaged research in Pueblo, Colorado, through the NEH-funded project “Soundscapes of the People: A Musical Ethnography of Pueblo, CO.” 

Wagenknecht holds a PhD in musicology and ethnomusicology from the University of Colorado Boulder and a BA in wide-range music education (choral and general music) from Wisconsin Lutheran College.